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Chef Infra (formerly just Chef) is a DevOps tool for scripting server configurations in Ruby (called cookbooks).

Chef isn't running the apt (apt-get update) recipe. Apt returns 100

Running Ubuntu 11.04 on vagrant, mac os x 10.7.2. Running chef server. Trying to install the postgresql community chef recipe, I get …

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How to use library module in Cookbook recipes

In a cookbook I have a library(client_helper.rb). A module is defined inside it. Module name is Client_…

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How to add a cron job entry using Chef recipe

All, I have a shell script that is creates tar file of logs. I have embeded the recipe in the …

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Chef Error - SSL Validation failure connecting to host

My chef-server is COMPUTE1 (in capital letters) and workstation is COMPUTE2 (in capital letters) and I am trying to upload …

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DRY within a Chef recipe

What's the best way to do a little DRY within a chef recipe? I.e. just break out little bits …

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Adding role to node does not work

I am following exact syntax but seeing some strange behavior while adding role to one of my nodes I am …

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How do you modularize a Chef recipe?

Here is an example of a working recipe that loops through an array of website names and creates them in …

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